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About .REST Domain Names

“Rest” is the abbreviation for restaurant in over 50 countries, which makes .REST a great choice for restaurants, dining guides, food critics, chefs and delivery services around the world. It’s short, memorable and easy for hungry people to type into their mobile devices. Use it to bring customers through your doors.

Registration Information

The .REST launch is divided into three phases: Trademark Holder (Sunrise), Priority Pre-Registration (Landrush) and General Availability. Each phase has specific application requirements:

From April 9, 2014, at 18:00 UTC to June 8, 2014, at 18:00 UTC, trademark holders can submit an application to register a .REST domain containing their owned mark, before it's available to the public. When you submit the registration request, you pay registration and application fees. The application fees are non-refundable.

Trademark validation goes through the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), which is an ICANN global repository for trademark data. Visit the TMCH website for information on registering a trademark.

From June 11, 2014, at 18:00 UTC to July 10, 2014, at 18:00 UTC, customers can purchase .REST domain names at a premium price. When you submit the registration request, you pay registration and application fees.

Multiple Priority Pre-Registration applications with different registrars are resolved via auction. If you don't get the domain you want, we refund your registration fee. However, applications fees are non-refundable.

Multiple applications with different registrars are resolved on a first-come, first-served basis during General Availability. If we aren’t able to secure the domain name, we’ll refund the registration fee.

Make sure you go here to get the latest scoop on registering this domain name.